On this date (Sept. 28) in 1920, eight players on the Chicago White Sox baseball team were indicted by a Cook County, Illinois, grand jury f...

Gangland Boston , due out in October 2017, is the newest book by Boston Globe crime reporter and author Emily Sweeney. (In 2012, Sweeney re...

J.P. Macheca, later linked with local Mafia, played key role in Reconstruction Era battle Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper ...

He was livin' in the U.S.A., as the song title goes.  Because of his privileged status as a law enforcement officer in the democracy cal...